biden, who sat down with us for an interview earlier this week in milwaukee, wisconsin. well, good morning, mr. vice president. >> good morning. >> schieffer: and welcome to "face the nation." we did some checking. this is your third appearance as vice president. your 55th appearance on "face the nation." that's more than any other democrat. you still haven't caught up with john mccain, who is the leader right now. well, let's get right to it. you really laid into governor romney this week. you said he was consistently wrong about everything. does this mean that you and the president have decided that mitt romney is the nominee, that he's who you are going to be facing come fall. >> bob, i can never figure out who the democratic nominee is going to be in the primary. he seems like the frontrunner. what he is saying is not fundamentally different than santorum. >> schieffer: but you would be really surprised if he was not the nominee. >> yeah, i guess i would, but it's really amazing. i'm not being facetious. i have been surprised by this whole republican primary process.